The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier
Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions
Julian Hanich Daniel Fairfax Dudley Andrew Vivian Sobchack Marie-Aude Lous Baronian Christian Ferencz Robert Sinnerbrink Kate Ince Guido Kirsten Victor Fan
For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier’s intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator’s engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved ever since their publication in French in 1969.
Author Bio
Julian Hanich is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Groningen. He is the author of two monographs: The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (2018) and Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear (2010).
Daniel Fairfax is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and an editor of the online film journal Senses of Cinema.
